stock market, s&p 500, has risen by 70%. if you have got a lot of money in the market, you are definitely better off now than you were three years and eight months ago. if you lost your job, not so much. but president obama started in the middle of a convulsive economic downturn. blaming him for, say, the epic job losses in february 2009. almost 800,000 that month alone would be like -- blaming a fire fighter inform for dooj done by a blaze what when he is still getting out after truck. mitt romney agrees with that. he said whoever is elected should get, quote, a least six months or a year to get the policies in place. so if you give obama's policies that year, if you go by mitt romney's clock, now you begin in february of 2010. since that time, the economy has add order net 4 million jobs. the stock has risen by 30%. so things have definitely improved since then. but voters tend to worry not about last four years or last three. they toned focus on the last year or so. you can ask george h.w. bush or jimmy carter. both of wh